Report On Search For Sanskrit MSS Year 1882 1883

Author(s): R G Bhandarkar
Publisher: Government Central Book Depot

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Śaka 1508.
illustrative calculations in it are
made for the year 1508 Saka or 1586 A.D. Viśvanâtha therefore wrote this commentary twenty-six years before that on Gaņeśa's Grahalâghava. There are manuscripts of several other Jâtakas among which may be mentioned the Yavanajâtaka, (No. 349), which is probably the one referred to by Kesaya of Nandigrâma. The date of the manuscript is 1621 Samyat or 1565 A.D. We have, however, not got a complete copy of this Jâtaka and the section on the subject of Keśava’s Jyotîratnamåla. quotation is wanting. No. 316
is Srîpati's Jyotîratnamâlâ with a commentary by Mahadeva, the son of Luņiga. Whether this Sripati is identical with the author of the Jâtakapaddhati it is difficult to determine, The author of the Jyotîratnamâlâ was the son of Nâgadeva and grandson of Keśava who of course was a different person from the father of Ganesa. This Keśava belonged to the Kâsyapa Gotra, while Keśava of Nandigrâma was a Kausika.
No. 348 is a copy of a commentary on Keśava's Kesaya's Muhûrtatat.
otototMuhûrtatattva by his son Gatva.
da ņeśa. We have also a copy
of the Muhûrtachintâmaņi by Muhûrtachintâmani Rama who gives his genealogy by Rama.
thus : In Dharmapura on the banks of the Narmadâ there lived a learned man of the name of Chintamani who knew a great many Såstras including Jyotisha. He had a son named Ananta who was an astrologer and wrote a Jâtakapaddhati and a commentary on the Kâmadhenu. Nos. 300 and 301 are copies of a Kamadhenu, very probably the same as this.-Ananta had two sons His date. ,
Nilakantha and Rấma, the
latter of whom was the author of the work before us. He wrote it at Benares in 1522 Saka or 1600 A.D.